Sentence examples for last tract from inspiring English sources

The presence of marine birds represents an additional potential reservoir of infection, and in this regard the last tract of the Magra River, in Liguria, characterized by watersheds highly populated by water birds, should be also taken into account as a potential contamination source.

Again this result is consistent with hydrolysis of the initial guanine tract but being 'slowed down' in the process with the resulting processive momentum loss such as to lessen the ability of the enzyme to digest the last tract of guanines encountered at the other end of the oligomer.

A subtotal colectomy with resection of the last tract of terminal ileum was performed, with the small bowel appearing necrotic and perforated in several points for at least 40 cm of length.

Now, two large projects are proceeding in Paterson and neighboring West Paterson that will account for the last tracts of any reasonable size open to development on Garret Mountain.

The Kampar Peninsula is one of the last tracts of green left in central Sumatra, where forests have been cleared to make way for palm oil plantations and industrial tree plantations, especially those belonging to April and its chief rival, Asia Pulp and Paper, both owned by Indonesian conglomerates.

LONDON — Ubiquitous in products from cookies to cosmetics, and increasingly in European fuel tanks, too, palm oil is driving the destruction of some of Southeast Asia's last tracts of untouched rainforest and leading to huge emissions of gases that spur global warming.

Designated a World Heritage site in 1991, Ujung Kulon National Park contains the last tracts of primary lowland rainforest on Java, mostly in its higher elevations; its low hills and plateaus, by contrast, are covered largely by secondary forests of palm and bamboo.

It pays to be on good terms with the neighbours in this remote corner of Poland, one of the last tracts of wilderness in Europe where these animals still roam freely.

Construction of the road was proposed as early as two years after the US acquired the last tracts of land in the Upper Peninsula.

The scenic site, adjacent to a city-owned lighthouse, is the last big tract of mostly undeveloped property along Portland Harbor.

The 488-acre site was the last major tract of land acquired by Princeton Forrestal, which since the 1950's has purchased a total of 2,200 acres, all in Plainsboro and South Brunswick.